I stepped down the stairs in the huge T-shirt I was wearing, hoping not to wake anyone. If they weren't already awake. I didn't want to face their accusations about when and why I was already a fully mated female.

I had been on edge all morning after me and Theo had done the dirty and I wasn't ready for their interrogations yet. All I wanted was food.

I felt like something inside had changed, like my blood was thicker or something. I felt like my head was rounder or like I was constantly being watched and listened to. Like I was constantly under surveillance.

I turned on the spot to check I was alone and quietly made my way towards the fridge.

"Oh. My. God!"

I forced a smile and turned to an overly excited Mia. "Hi Mia." I said, my voice thick with sarcasm. She twirled, jumping up and down excitedly.

I don't think I had ever been as excited as Mia, was right now, about anything.

"Oh my goddess, I'm so happy for you. Are you excited for the transformation? Oh my we should run an ice bath now. Wait have you heard her?" Mia was shooting questions and statements at me like a crazy woman.

"Mia, what are you talking about?" I asked sighing already and it wasn't even ten 0'clock in the f**king morning. She paused, cocking an eyebrow at me.

"THEEEEEEEEOOOOOO.................." she yelled hesitating and not looking away from me. "Get down here..." she added slowly. I turned and Theo pulled me into his arms. "What's wrong?" he asked kissing my cheek. "Theo........."

All of a sudden, I remembered what she was talking about. Transformation.

Just the thought of the transformation, made my head thrum in a sense that hurt. I felt a headache begin but I pushed through it. I needed to clarify that I would make it out of this alive.

"Theo, I have to transform... Theo... will I make it... cant people die?" I asked cradling myself closer to his chest.

'You wont die. I'm going to be with you every step of the way.' A voice whispered in my head. 'I have to be strong Nala. You have to leave, you need to be somewhere alone.' It whispered.

"Get out of my head!" I screamed and all of a sudden my body fell to the floor as I tried to comfort myself. Theo wrapped his arms under me and carried me somewhere.

'Honey, you have to trust me. Without listening to me you won't survive.' It felt like the voice screamed. The force of the voice made my head throb. "Theo, make it stop." I cried as he held me close, kicking open a door. "Mia, it's too early for her to transform, she still has another forty-eight somewhat hours." Theo yelled at the door. I held my head in my hands and kept crying. "Someone make it stop!" I screamed again, desperate to make the humming in my head stop.

"Please, Theo. Shut it up." I screamed. It was hurting my head enormously. There was so much pain it felt like my head was going to split in two.

Mia burst through the door and attempted to drag Theo from the bed I was laying in. I clawed for his hand.

I couldn't do this alone. I needed him. He was everything for me and it hadn't even been 2 weeks. I needed him close, but Mia wouldn't stop trying to take him away.

"Theo, her wolf. Her wolf needs strength, come on. She only has 24 hours left Theo, you messed around all da...." I watched in agony as Mia dragged my one source of comfort further away. My head was screaming and once Theo and Mia was out the door, it began to cease.

'You must trust me Nala.' The voice whispered. "WHAT DO You want?" I began to scream but I trailed off into a cry. "What do you want?" I repeated in a small voice.

I didn't want this to happen. My head had stopped throbbing but there was a humming sound vibrating in my mind.

'Nala, I'm your wolf. I have twenty-four hours and forty-seven minutes to get you ready for this transformation. If you spend some alone we will be ready. But we are going to need our mate.' The voice said, her voice purring as she said mate.

"I don't even know what the f**k you are..." I said hesitantly. She giggled in response. 'My name is Nina and I'm your wolf.' She said and I could feel her strength. 'We must bond Nala.' She said and my body began to thrum as if to a rhythm. I felt a certain lightness in my mind and my body. My blood was definitely thicker as I could feel it moving in my veins.

Without my consent, my body was up and we were running down the hall and then down the stairs.

I could smell something strong. It was the smell of pine trees and a hint of dark chocolate. However, there was another, fainter smell, like makeup and olive oil and it had wrapped itself around the sweet scent of my mate. My chest grumbled and I could feel a growl building in my throat. It broke through my lips the second I saw a tall blonde running her fingers along Theo's arm.

I pressed my knuckles against my mouth and gasped at the sound. 'That was you Nina, right?' I thought in hopes, however she was busy analysing the cr*p in front of us.

'What the f**k?' Nina yelled and I completely agreed with her. 'I wanna chat with the b*t*h.' She said pushing to the front of my mind. At first it was an uncomfortable feeling having my human side shoved to the back. It was like I was being taken over and I didn't know if I wanted that. Yet when that fake blonde looked at me and leant into Theo whispering, I suddenly didn't care if Nina took over, I wanted her to take over.

I watched from the 'back seat' as my eyes changed their colour and Nina took control.

"The hell Theo?" she screamed. "You know that Nala isn't ready for this change. She's scared! She comes down the stairs to hold you and she walks in on this SH*T! Some low rank hoe wrapping her fake nails around my mate. OUR mate!"

I could feel the anger radiating off of Nina and from the shocked expression on Theo's face he could to.

The fake blonde looked at us and pressed her body against Theo harder but never let go of the eye contact she had with us. "We're just friends." She said smiling and rubbing Theo's arm. "Isn't that right baby?" she asked Theo.

Nina stalked towards her like a lion towards a zebra. Theo looked at the blonde like she was the stupidest girl in the world. "Um I don't want you Lani. I only asked you over so you could spend time with Nala... but um... I think you screwed up your chance." He said pushing her off him. Nina grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to the door.

In the 'back seat,' I was clapping joyously.

"Stay the fuck out!" Nina whispered. But Lani growled and where she once stood was a tall muddy brown wolf. She stepped back and made to lunge but Theo pounced, changing into his huge black wolf. He pinned her down, growling and pawing at her.

Lani stood and ran towards the woods yelping and growling.

I pushed forward and regained control as I stood there smirking at the tall black wolf. I cautiously stepped each step down, towards him as he playfully sat on his hind legs, showing he'd be a good boy. He was huge, sitting down he was two heads higher than I was. He was black but he had white markings on either shoulder, matching the marks he had when he was in human form.

If I was in a cartoon a light bulb would have went off, above my head.

I scratched behind his ear giggling. "Who's a good boy?"